A quick update on the Russia-Georgia situation

Scary.

When did Jonathan Demme turn into Noah Baumbach?

Hmmm. I didn't get the memo.

In a different category -- the I'm-in-the-mood-for-a-movie-and-it's-summer-and-this-looks-decent category -- is this, which I alone among the people at the critics' screening enjoyed, and also The Wackness and Baghead. Hey, pretty good beats awful any day.

Top 10 things I'm looking forward to about living in Ravenna

In no particular order:

1. The Burke-Gilman Trail
2. Green Lake
3. PCC
4. Being close to my North End friends
5. The Grand Illusion
6. The Northeast 65th Street strip
7. Third Place Books
8. The U District Farmers Market
9. Rising Sun Farms & Produce
10. Living at the Ravenna Kibbutz!

Top 10 things I'll miss about Capitol Hill

INPO:

1. Victrola
2. Jamjuree
3. Volunteer and Cal Anderson parks
4. The Harvard Exit, the Egyptian, and Northwest Film Forum
5. Madison Market
6. The unbelievable quiet and privacy of my mother-in-law cottage
7. Seeing people I know as I walk up and down 15th Avenue East
8. On 15th Video
9. Watching singer-songwriters warm up outside the Hopvine on open-mic nights
10. Living in what remains -- sorry, Ravenna and West Seattle -- my favorite Seattle neighborhood

I'm moving!

Here. Come visit me Tuesday nights for potluck or Friday nights for Shabbat dinner. Or anytime! You can bounce on the blue exercise ball and we can have a nice chat.

Paris is, like, TOTALLY ready to lead

Sometimes she's hard not to like.

And lest Cindy feel left out, The Huffington Post ordered a hit on her, too.

My Muxtape in progress

Thanks to a recent reminder from Kate, I finally got to work on a Muxtape of my very own. Sadly, not a lot of my music is in MP3 form, but thanks to a recent visit to the Daytrotter site, I have a wider selection to choose from. Et voilà!